60 The Fern Garden. 



and pliable as packthread. The two ferns here repre- 

 sented are examples of my mode of suspending. The 

 Adiantum is in a cocoa-nut, bored all over with holes a 

 quarter or third of an inch in diameter, and it has 

 pushed crowns through every one of them, so as to 



smother the outside with foliage. The Camptosorus is 

 in a little case formed of thin bark, bound with brass 

 wire. To water these, the best way is to lift them out 

 and lower them into a deep vessel, with a stick passed 

 through the suspending cord and laid across the top of 



